“Bacon improved things dramatically.”

“Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. "Bacon," Bitterblue muttered. "Bacon!" she repeated, then carefully made her way up the spiral stairs.”

“People want incongruous, impossible things.”

“There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.”

“A king who’s innocentof the things of which he’s guilty?”

“Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?”

“It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.”